The 2009 Islamabad Frontier Corps post bombing was a
suicide attack
A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout history ...
that took place on the Pakistan paramilitary
Frontier Corps
The Frontier Corps ( ur, , reporting name: FC), are a group of paramilitary forces of Pakistan, operating in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to maintain law and order while overseeing the country's borders with Afghanista ...
(FC) post at
Jinnah Super Market
Muhammad Ali Jinnah (, ; born Mahomedali Jinnahbhai; 25 December 1876 – 11 September 1948) was a barrister, politician, and the founder of Pakistan. Jinnah served as the leader of the All-India Muslim League from 1913 until the ...
in Sector E/7 of the Margalla area of
Islamabad
Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capita ...
on Saturday, 4 April 2009.
Five people were killed and five were injured. Policemen were taking dinner at the time.
Reaction
"The suicide bomber came from behind the bushes when the FC personnel broke for dinner and got a chance to detonate the device" said Interior Advisor Rehman.
See also
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Violence in Pakistan 2006-09
Violence is the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy. Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened o ...
, table and map providing overview of all violence in Pakistan between 2006 and 2009.
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War in Northwest Pakistan
References
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